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From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
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To: nate@yogotech.com, schilling@fokus.gmd.de
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Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)
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>From nate@yogotech.com Thu Nov 29 21:11:16 2001

>> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling
>> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead
>> of keeping a real tar?

>Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was
>created.

Well this is from BSD-4.3:

/*
 * Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
 * All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
 * specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
 */

#ifndef lint
char copyright[] =
"@(#) Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.\n\
 All rights reserved.\n";
#endif not lint

#ifndef lint
static char sccsid[] = "@(#)tar.c       5.7 (Berkeley) 4/26/86";
#endif not lint

This _is_ a real tar.

... And it has no Copyright AT&T inside.

If you like to compare star against the standard, look
at:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/tar.html

Jörg

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